What constitutes a photograph? by Sharyn Raggett https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh An online group knowledge repository to curate and evaluate the controversy surrounding the winning entry in the Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture 2017, 'Maternal line' by Justine Varga. en-us 2019-10-05 04:44:47 UTC 2024-11-28 14:35:57 UTC hello@padlet.com From Martyn Jolly brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393855938 Look I don’t want to add to the beat up, but jeez some ridiculous things are being said about Justine Varga’s winning photograph for the Olive Cotton Portrait prize. Now a professor of Law at the University of Sydney is saying the chemical and light produced image of Justine Varga’s grandmother’s pen marks and spittle isn’t authored by Varga but by her Grandmother.]]> 2019-10-05 05:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393855938 Should Justine Varga's grandmother be given the prize money? brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856224 Kimberlee Weatherall, a professor and associate dean at the University of Sydney law school, said the owner of the prize-winning work was Varga's grandmother, either solely or jointly with her granddaughter.]]> 2019-10-05 05:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856224 Justine Varga / Maternal Line September 2017 brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856449 2019-10-05 05:19:28 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856449 Justine Varga, 'Maternal Line'. Winner of the Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture 2017. brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856774 Image: Justine Varga, Maternal Line, 2017, chromogenic hand-printed photograph, 153 cm x 125 cm framed. Courtesy the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide]]> 2019-10-05 05:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856774 From Shaune Lakin brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856918 All the same, “photographic portraiture” is a wonderfully broad term and not one limited to what goes on in photographic studios, photojournalism, documentary photography or, for that matter, on Facebook. It is a term perfectly suited to Varga’s photograph: it’s a portrait of her grandmother made using photographic processes.]]> 2019-10-05 05:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856918 brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856979 Professor Weatherall also said that merely reproducing a work did not make a person its author.

You have to contribute original expression to the artistic work to be an author," she said. "That would require, in this case, in some way changing the scrawls, or how they were presented on the page, or re-colouring the entire thing, or adding an entirely different background.

]]> 2019-10-05 05:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393856979 From Justine Varga brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393857237 If you close your eyes and imagine a loved one, I can almost guarantee that the impression you will find won’t be crisp and clear; it will be muffled and somewhat muted, just a memory of a gesture or the sound of a laugh; yet somehow you know it is them. My photography seeks to evoke this kind of sensation. ]]> 2019-10-05 05:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393857237 Listen to the podcast interview with Justine Varga brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393857413 FBi Radio, 10 September 2017 (time code 00:46:30 – 00:53:35)]]> 2019-10-05 05:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393857413 Justine Varga Artist Interview, Emanations: The Art of Cameraless Photography brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393859115 2019-10-05 06:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393859115 Art controversy: hate-mail after grandmother's saliva wins $20,000 portrait prize brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393859702 2019-10-05 06:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393859702 Is this image really a portrait? Controversy and the Olive Cotton Award by North Sullivan brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393860069 Whatever lines Ms Varga and Dr Lakin have sought to challenge, one thing is clear, the winning entry is almost certainly not the work of Ms Varga, but that of her aged and vulnerable grandmother.]]> 2019-10-05 06:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393860069 Academic Martyn Jolly discusses 'Maternal line' brilliantthing1 https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393861552 2019-10-05 06:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393861552 brilliantthing2 https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393862397 This is the judge, Shaune Lakin's response to criticisms...]]> 2019-10-05 06:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393862397 Olive Cotton Award 2017 brilliantthing2 https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393862783 Exhibition Catalogue PDF]]> 2019-10-05 06:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393862783 Justine Varga: Photographic Process and Portraiture brilliantthing2 https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393862887 Check out this video ...]]> 2019-10-05 06:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393862887 More from Shaune Lakin brilliantthing2 https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393863323 Maternal Line knowingly and conscientiously draws on this history of process-based (as opposed to picture-based) photography, a history which has always understood the darkroom as a place of practice, experimentation and innovation. Lawyers and photographers who questioned the copyright ownership of Maternal Line are simply unaware of this.]]> 2019-10-05 07:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393863323 Do you think 'Maternal line' pushes the boundaries of what constitutes a photograph? Do you agree with the judge's decision? Why or why not? brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393871775 2019-10-05 08:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393871775 Olive Cotton Award 2019 Conditions of entry brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393872182 Take a read of these rules and see if you can find anything that would have disqualified Varga's 'Maternal line' in 2017]]> 2019-10-05 08:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393872182 Twitter goes nuts brilliantthing https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393875901 2019-10-05 09:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/393875901 brilliantthing1 https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/394014553 2019-10-05 22:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/brilliantthing/frz757qpyouh/wish/394014553